Solemnity Is The Shield Of

I Acknowledge That History Is Full Of Religious Wars: But We Must Distinguish; It Is Not The Multiplicity Of Religions Which Has Produced These Wars; It Was The Intolerating Spirit Which Animated That One Which Thought She Had The Power Of Governing.

The Severity Of The Laws Prevents Their Execution.

I Should Like To Abolish Funerals; The Time To Mourn A Person Is At His Birth, Not His Death.

As Virtue Is Necessary In A Republic, And Honor In A Monarchy, Fear Is What Is Required In A Despotism. As For Virtue, It Is Not At All Necessary, And Honor Would Be Dangerous There.

Brutes Are Deprived Of The High Advantages Which We Have; But They Have Some Which We Have Not. They Have Not Our Hopes, But Theyare Without Our Fears; They Are Subject Like Us To Death, But Without Knowing It; Even Most Of Them Are More Attentive Than We To Self-preservation, And Do Not Make So Bad A Use Of Their Passions.